Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/209704 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Citation: 
[Journal:] European Political Science Review [ISSN:] 1755-7747 [Volume:] 6 [Issue:] 4 [Publisher:] Cambridge University Press [Place:] Cambridge [Year:] 2014 [Pages:] 575-595
Publisher: 
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Abstract: 
Globalization pressures result in a new ideological conflict among Europeans. We use detailed items from the Eurobarometer survey on issues of immigration and European integration that measure the ideological perspective underpinning positions toward the EU. This provides a fine-grained analysis of the ideologies underlying the poles of the new globalization-centered conflict line, which we define as cosmopolitan and communitarian. Our results show that, next to socio-demographic characteristics, subjective measurements have a considerable additional power in explaining the divide among Europeans along the communitarian–cosmopolitan dimension. Subjective deprivation, evaluation of globalization as a threat, and (sub)national and supranational identities play an important role in dividing Europeans into groups of winners and losers of globalization in both Western and Central and Eastern European countries. At the country level, the national degree of globalization is associated positively with the communitarian pole and negatively with the cosmopolitan pole in all EU countries.
Subjects: 
globalization
societal conflict
cosmopolitanism
communitarianism
EU
immigration
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Article
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